president does not have to accept the electoral college votes as they had been cast. i said, well, richard, you could tell the vice president that i said he has no such authority whatsoever. >> why did you take to twitter? >> the next morning, richard calls. and he said, look, we have to get your voice out to the country immediately. within the next hour or two. >> judge michael luttig, with the help of his son, sent his first ever twitter thread. >> my son sent me twitter instructions on how to tweet a thread of individual tweets that were under 140 -- i had no earthly idea what this is about. i just told my son, send it to me right now or i will cut you out of the will. >> he read me some of that red. >> the only responsibility and power of the vice president under the constitution is to faithfully count the electoral college votes as they have been cast. the constitution does not empower the vice president to alter in any way the votes that have been cast, either by